On March 21, 2024 House and Senate lawmakers released the fiscal year 2024 defense appropriatios bill. 220606 Not a subscriber?Sign up for 30 days free accessto exclusive, behind-the-scenes reporting on defense policy and procurement.
The Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee this morning released its draft version of the fiscal year 2024 defense spending bill, intending to fund the Pentagon at $831.7 billion, or about $534 million above President Biden's request. The full committee approved the bill this morning with a ...
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., who is expected to serve as the next chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the overall spending level was a “tremendous loss for our national defense,” though he agreed with many provisions within the bill....
WASHINGTON (CN) — President Donald Trump made good on his vow Wednesday to veto the 2021 national defense spending bill, queuing up a showdown in Congress where a supermajority of both the House and Senate could override him. The Senatepassed the bill— which has made it through Congress s...
The GOP-led House Appropriations Committee voted 34-24 today to pass its version of the fiscal year 2024 defense spending bill amid opposition from Democrats, who opposed the legislation over politically charged policy riders related to abortion as well
The House Armed Services Committee marked up the 2010 Appropriations Bill for the Defense Department and moved it forward for a full vote by the House. The Committee agreed with the Senate and removed the funding for continued F-22 funding moving an obs
The Senate has passed the massive 2022 defense policy, authorizing nearly $768 billion in defense spending. The bill now heads to the White House for presidential approval. The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, which the Senate approved 88-11, authorizes $740 billion in spending for the ...
He’s also insisting the spending bill not include language requiring military bases named after treasonous Confederate traitors to be renamed. U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel,saidthe Senate pas...
Senate Passes Defense Spending Bill, Adding $693 Million to House Total.Discusses the budget concerns regarding the fiscal 2003 defense spending bill. Debate on the bill between appropriators and Congressman John McCain (R-Ariz); Effort made by McCain against the plan to lease Boeing aircraft for...
While the budget deal that passed the Senate Wednesday will ease the sequester burden on the Pentagon in 2014, the Defense bill spending is still $32 billion above the defense spending caps in the budget agreement. The sweeping Pentagon policy bill will somewhat ease the restrictions on transferri...